January 2010
15 posts
“Commercial Off Broadway has kept fewer than half as many spaces as it has lost,...”
– Outrageous Fortune, the Life and Times of the New American Play, by Todd London, Ben Pesner, and Zannie Giraud Voss
Fetch Clay, Make Man at McCarter
This weekend I saw Will Power’s new show. Inspired by a photo he saw of Mohammed Ali with his “friend and secret strategist Stepin Fetchit.” Will says he was kinda surprised when he saw those two together. But “what I discovered was that era was not painted in black + white, but in much more complex colors that aren’t easily defined.” Ben Vereen plays Stepin...
Here ya go, hon!
My friends at Thaumaturgy, the dramaturgy department’s blog at Baltimore’s CENTERSTAGE, asked me to post a few Baltimore-themed holiday memories. I hail from “Charm City,” and it was at CENTERSTAGE that I first became familiar with writers such as Emily Mann and Eric Overmyer. And also where I began collecting productions of Moliere’s The Miser. During the 2009...